English Dictionary

filk

IPA（発音記号）

/fɪlk/

形容詞

比較不可

(music) About or inspired by science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, and/or subjects of interest to fans of speculative fiction; frequently, being a song whose lyrics have been altered to refer to science fiction; parodying. (However, much filk music is original rather than parodic.)

日本語の意味

サイエンスフィクション、ファンタジー、ホラー、科学など、スペキュレイティブ・フィクションのファンにとって興味深い主題に触発された、またはそれに関する音楽。歌詞が改変され、しばしばサイエンスフィクションに関連するパロディとして用いられる場合があるが、多くはオリジナルの内容である

She wrote a filk song about time-traveling scientists and ancient dragons.

彼女は時間旅行する科学者や古代のドラゴンについての、SFやファンタジーに触発された歌を書いた。

意味（1）

(music) About or inspired by science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, and/or subjects of interest to fans of speculative fiction; frequently, being a song whose lyrics have been altered to refer to science fiction; parodying. (However, much filk music is original rather than parodic.)

The blame/credit (choose one) for the first filk song is a little dubious. Like the man who tried to sit on two stools, it falls in the middle, between Poul Anderson who wrote a filk song called Barbarous Allen and Karen Anderson who egged him on and published it in Zed #774.